Show japanese Si vorda japanese swords are the finest said a they are finer athan the blades of ferrara of toledo vm 0 damascus the blades of ot and of damascus must bend into a perfect circle without breaking and a pillow of down abeln thrown in the air they must cut it in two with one clean stroke but the japanese blade must do all that and more the final test of a japanese blade is its suspension edge upward beneath a tree t must hang beneath the tree for twenty four hours and every lightest leaf that falls upon its edge must be severed neatly one failure and back to the forge goes the japanese blade again |